How to Stain a Wooden Floor (pro method for DIY)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- How to stain a wooden floor like a pro:
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In this video I demonstrate the basic method of staining a wooden floor. Starting from the back of the room (furthest away from the door), staining 3 boards at a time (not more than a full arms length). Moving from right to left,either way is ok, so long as you keep going back to the side you started and moving to the side you finished.
You use the brush against the back edge first, as long as a metre from the corner, then to the ends of, say, 3 or 4 boards. Rag the stain on thickly with one rag and dry off the excess with another.
If the drying rag becomes too sodden, replace with a new rag.
This is only a quick description of how to stain your wood floor, but I go into much more depth in the article linked above.
WOOD FLOOR STAIN LINKS (Amazon Affiliate Links):
UK Morrells Light Fast Stain (New Medium Oak, the colour used in this video)
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USA Minwax Wood Finishes Penetrating Stain (Red Oak, browse around for the other colours)
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Roller For Lacquer
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Roller For Stain
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Rags For Stain
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Respirator (face mask)
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Before you comment or email asking what stain to use, you can find out what I use and recommend (UK and US) by downloading my free eBook about the products I use. It has fillers, lacquers, oils, stains everything you need to know, go to howtosandafloor.com/products/
Rick James who hurt you?
@@organicallyhannah I don’t get this but it still made me laugh 🤣
This was extremely helpful. Done sanding 5 rooms and a hallway (don’t ever want to do that again in this lifetime) now on to staining!! Wish me luck.
How did it turn out?
😂💪
I'm afraid to see.. 🙏🤷
OMG! SO TRUE. I Sand 6 Rooms and a Long Hallway; Woke Up the Next Morning, Feeling Like I "Been Banged Up from Football, whereas, I was the Ball.
@@badsport-s4b How long did it take you to do?
Been doing floors for 34 years, tried buffing stain , didn't like it. Still do wipe on, wipe off. It does a better job. Nice work on the staining.
This comment probably just saved me another $56 home depot rental for a floor buffer that I didn't want to rent. Thanks!
Are you blind? 34 years? His floor is so god awful ugly, replete with so many irregularities, lap marks & grotesque linear & blotchy high contrast tonal inconsistencies that it's an absolute wonder he ever posted this god awful ghetto project in the first place. A total testament to the sheer stupidity of man in the modern era that he has even one single like.
your channel has been the most helpful of all the videos on here.. from filling to sanding to staining... thank you
ATTENTION: In my research, I have seen so so many videos on how to stain a floor and they all use different methods. This leads one to believe that ONLY ONE method is right. Either way, I like this method and this guy knows his stuff. Often it is not a particualr method that is wrong BUT a step within a method. For example, one guy did not sand down enough to get rid of old stain and his final job was patchy. It had nothing to do with the fact that he applied stain with a brush (vs rag / vs. spongee / vs applicator). At the end of the day, multiple professionals all have their ONE way. I believe the principles matter. Either way, I like this video. another interesting fact is that haters hate on EVERY principle regardless. No one will agree with every method even though multiple methods work great. thanks for the great video - this method worked very well!
thanks for the comment! :)
Well said. Retain what's useful, and add your own spin if a method is discovered.
Yes, it's wood, not a space ship
@mpreiss exactly! Space ships are Aluminum or maybe even an advanced form of titanium carbide alloy. Either way, I would treat it differently than a wood floor. A wood floor is an opportunity to hone one's skills whilst daring to be creative: to be one with the wood and one with ones own peculiarity, a unique masterpiece undertaken with principles AND the personal. Conversely only one specific exact way exists to finish a spaceship body: tremclad exterior spray paint
@@TechNACITYbjj yeah, its like cooking which is more of an art, with room for creativity and variations vrs baking, which is more of a science, that needs exact measurements and temperatures.(my expertise)
Thank you! I'm doing my stairs after ripping off carpet; what a job!! Never stained before and needed some tips. Grateful for your video.
Man you were young in this video I been watching your videos from the very start until now and I see that your name could be perfection over the years
"you can do it as long as you know how". Profound!
lol
Thank you so much; I did my floors based on your video which make me understand the right way to stain a floor. Thank you again
I am almost done sanding. Glad to get a jump on how to stain next. Nice and simple but essential advice.
Dude, You Made This Look SO Easy. Thanks, Heading to Home Depot, NOW!
Glad I could help!
Hi, FYI treating pine with pre stain conditioner yields a more even finish. Good video, thanks!
Definitely google the results of both with and without. I actually like the dramatic variety of colors.
Awesome !
You are the Guru of the wooden Floor !
Sure am! ;)
+How To Sand A Floor ..... ok i have a question about the floor in my house is old stain but i want to repaint over it , can you tell me what do i need to do ..... thanks
Came for a lesson in staining, stayed for dat funk! Thanks
Staining a new red oak floor, followed your instructions exactly and all was well until the final row when I was dripping sweat uncontrollably.....Alas, I will begin the sanding process from square one again! I honestly didn't even consider that factor.
Thanks looked great. Now if only I could finish pulling up the carpet! So many staples in the underlay, back breaking to try pull out!!
I'm sick of my floors and the nails. sick of it.
Dude, Like your video make it look so easy ! thsnks
I use the buffer and an industrial carpet bonnet. Works awesome! I used to do it with a brush and rag, never again.
How about darker lines in between those sections where you apply the stain. (Where the stain overlaps) I don’t like the darker spots that not belong to the wood
I don’t know if you were high but you certainly got it done quickly.
u just gotta love stained wooden floors. so gorgeous.
9:55 response. You can also pilot a space shuttle as long as you know how. Lol jus kidding I've learned so much from this guy.
I do these daily . But with a buffer and a foam pad and rags . Pour a little at a time and have someone cut the corners in . Then dry rags to go back over .
Thanks will be doing mine in the summer months thanks for all these useful tips I'm going to do it now that I know what I'm doing great stuff thanks again
Pro's rarely stain by hand unless we forget something.
Good effort.
Howard Chislett you use buffer?
***** Yes, but on that floor I would probably end up doing it like that and earning my money the hard way!
Questions
What stain? Morrells?
and
What are those dark bands down the sides of a lot of the boards? The wood looked the same colour until it was stained then dark bands appeared.
i think you know ;) the floor wasn't sanded by me, i wondered if i was going to upload the video because of that, i may do another vid soon
Your videos are so helpful! Thank you so much for the tutorials made it easy since it was my first time doing any work on my wood floors!
Gaby Reyes Awesome, glad i could help
Lesson to be learned here for me was using a stand up applicator to apply finish. Makes the job easier and faster. Just pay particular attention that you don't leave puddles. Sanding is to me an art as you muse be careful not to sand in one particular spot to Other than this the whole job is rather easy but very time consuming too long. Do not rush!
Well, I'm glad to see I did it the same way you did. I even got acceptable chatoyance out of mine.
Great vid; I did a whole room with a brush, but the rag looks much easier!
I put the stain on withba brush, and rag it off.
Thanks for sharing your method is very easy and simple just to get my job done 👍
Just done our floors upstairs, but used an Osmo floor brush. Soooo much quicker and easier than doing it on your hands and knees with a couple of rags
I used it too, but it left quite a lot of brush streaks, did you have the same problem at all?
Yes, they had the same problem. Thats why you should use rags..
watching your vids between lacquer coats on my freshly sanded baltic pine floor! ... almost makes me wish i stained it too!
Naw. I stain with a lambs wool mop head. It goes on faster
If y'all can't say nothing nice please dismiss your self because obviously y'all don't know what y'all doing or other wise you would be on his video watching it I think he did a great job and thank you for sharing it.
You are the best online floor guy. Liked and sub
Thank you! :)
appreciate the lesson! getting ready to do this!
Dude. Your like a Pro !!!
either way hats off to you , almost 800,000 views! thats almost $1,000 from youtube
This is exactly what I needed demonstrated. Why were some boards much darker than others?
Thanks for the video. They are so helpful.
Most trailers it all depends has cabinet doors that have wrap around them yes you can stain them it just takes a long time to have the stain dry you have to be extra careful because it's going to be easier to put on and it's not going to absorb it as well but yes you can do that to a laminate floors also because I have done it to both and it looks great
I just used a large rage & i like it without the stain to. Thank you
Great video. I want to try this but with a darker color. A lot of the videos skip the person doing the whole job. Thanks for showing us everything, and just speeding it up instead of cutting from before, to a few feet done and then to final product. Regards!
Christopher Martone Thank you!
Great instructional video, Benjamin. I read somewhere that you need to leave the stain on 5 to 10 minutes. However, in your video, you wipe excess stain off within seconds. Is there a reason why, besides the need to make a quicker video? Thanks.
Thank you for sharing you did a awasome job ! !!!🙌
wood prix is full of awesome tips. Very helpful to me. Thanks
Tape off down long edge about 1m in (knealing width), dooways ,exit areas, half the hallway, let dry then go back and do the rest.for a start
You should condition a floor like that before staining, so you don’t have dark patches like that.
Very nice my Friend ❤❤ good work😁😁👍👍👍
Much quicker with lambs wool but easier to get consistent by hand but man don't it take forever. Lol. That stain was working that dude in such a small room. With a 12 inch lambs wool you can be done in 5minutes or less for a small room. Homeboy in this video looked like it took him over an hour, but I have to give it up to that poor bastard, good job mate.
Just nicely done to perfection, now for the decorator to come and blather it full of roller spray where his dust sheets were short to the skirting boards lol 😜😜😜
I would figure you'd use a roto but I guess if you're just showing the dyi's then this is how they would do it looks good anyway brother as always you the man
looks amazing great job
Great music in this video :)
Yes l very much liked the video. Great Job!!!
I use a lamb whool aplicater and a pole with the edges trimmed so not to get stain on the base boards as i apply stain 1 or 2 crackheads I hired that morning will rub in/wipe away excess stain in a left to right movement with clean rags all the time keeping the base boards as clean as possible takes 20 minutes.
You don't treat pine wood prior to staining to prevent the blotchiness?
Thank you very much for the videos on how to sand, fill, stain and lacquer wood floors. I plan to try to do this on my own on my old oak floors and after watching these videos I feel much more informed to go about it. I would like them to come as close to the darkest brown/espresso color as possible. Do you have any suggestions on a color stain/brand that I can use or do I need to do more than 2 coats? I have some pretty deep scratches on the floors that I'm afraid may not even out with sanding, will the filler fill them in or should I work some of the dust mixture in the scratches first? Also, do you have any before and after pictures?
Nicole Wong-DeSantis Thanks for comments and questions. As for color, it sounds like you want something like a Jacobean dark oak. I can't really recommend a manufacturer, because i don't know whats available to you. Stain is usually just 1 coat if its done properly. Make sure you go to the website and read the article on staining. Usually scratches look very deep and infact they are much shallower than they appear. It is very rare to have a scratch that won't come out with sanding. Good luck!
clear concise easy to follow
thanks from downunder Brother
I used this technique with Dura Seal True Black on (water popped) top nailed white Oak...lol, you make it look easy by the way...Everything went well, but i have what can be described as minor buffing marks from my knee pads. Can only be seen with back lighting. Ben, You think they will come out with two coats of Mega One? Thanks for the great vids...
Very helpful, thanks😌🙏🏻
OMG!!!!!! u totally won me!!!! i s soooooo damn confused n this method s like easy peasy.......thnx a trillion
can u plz provide details which products u ve used to stain the floor??? plz
stain
Hola soy de colombia excelente vídeo
Thanks, very helpful :)
Great Job!
Cheers🍻
Would you mind to tell me what type of wood that is on the floor, pine or cypress and the thickness, tongue and groove solid wood? Also, what color of stain is that jacobean or dark walnut by chance. I mix my stains by percentage to get a variation of color combo to accent certain textures within the wood. P.S. Can't believe you did that without a mask. Brave!
Great Video - Love it
thank you!
I like to use carpet on a buffer. Just cut in edges and use the right carpet. Super fast, blends evenly, and you are off the floor.
Looks great only thing is the boards that look darker than the others is how my floor looks it bugs me for some reason but I'm assuming that's how I was going to look because not all wood is the same I don't know lol
Staining to porn music is always a blast!
Pretty good, doesn’t hurt to have another person to make it go much faster
Great stuff.
you make it look so simple... but how much would it cost roughly for someone to come in and do the job? For roughly the same sized room.
+Tessa Leanne £400 or $600 more or less depending on location, details of floor and flooring company
Ok
How To Sand A Floor so like 2- 3 dollars sf ?materials incluided?.
Railey’s custom renovations owner here.... I’ll tell you price varies by location and what’s CURRENTLY down on your floor ect.
To give you a rough idea..... large companies charge anywhere between $7-15/sf.
Smaller companies with less overhead charge closer to $4-8/sf.
Like I said it’s all depending on what’s currently down, and what you’re replacing it with. It’s a time consuming process and refinishing of hardwood floors is icy more based on PREPARATION rather than technique.
mate who sanded the floor???? Those lines in the grain tho LOL!!!! You should try popping the floor..its a wetting down process with a mop which brings out the grain of the timber and makes the colour darker
The floor looks amazing....~ Kudos to ya~ :)
Hi Ben! This video is really informative and helpful thanks! Looking for some advice about staining products. Need a black stain/laquer which has minimal fumes. Our customer's little girl is athsmatic , so we're looking for the safest option. I wondered if you could reccommend any product which may be suitable please? Any help much appreciated! Cheers!
Jenny Tingle use a 2k oil
Good work
you shld try staining with a wall brush? you can get diffrent widths so much faster and easier. I use to stain like this but its way to hard!
I watched your video and read your blog post. I've also watched all of your sanding videos. I think I'm ready to dive in head first (I hope there's water in the pool)! I have to ask, though, is there a better brush that you prefer to use? Also what type of "rag"? Also, how many times do I stain, and what do I coat it with after? Two passes of stain, and one pass of weather protector? What's the difference between stain and lacquer? Do I buff the floor in between? So many questions? Do you have a series of videos that shows ALL steps from start to finish?
cscooper2000 I do have an ebook available on the site that has it all, but in short, 1 stain 2 protectors, stain is colouring, lacquer is protecting. I would use a waterbased polyurethane lacquer and then rub-down/buff after the first coat of poly
So helpful and not sure why decorators charge a fortune for this.
I’m a professional floor sander for an actual hardwood floor sanding company and when we sand your floors then coat/stain them we usually charge you by how much square feet of hardwood were working with. I think right now my company is charging 6 or 7 bucks per square foot to be sanded and finished. There’s a lot of physical work that goes into sanding and finishing floors. Sanding belts/papers can be very expensive aswell with the coat/stain, not to mention the big machines we run cost thousands of dollars!! Hope this helps lol!
very nice
What kind of stain are you using? Do you have a link to the product? Many thanks
what did you do to finish the concrete at the old fireplace?
i have this problem with my floor and have no idea how to finish it, i'll be sanding and staining in a few weeks...don't really want to resort to chipping it away
geesterfunk what i always say to my customers is that you can chip it out and lay some reclaimed boards down (staggering it into the floor as much as possible), BUT reclaimed boards never ever match fully, you will always know that some sort of repair work has taken place. I advise people to either paint it or lay some tiles over it and make it a feature.
***** cheers for the advice mate.
and keep up the hard graft, your site's a good yin.
Nice job. Was this pine? If not, how should I approach staining this wood?
What kind of wood is that? Very helpful video, thank you so much!!!
Standard pine floorboards, very, very common in the UK
Very nice!
You don't prestain that pine to keep blochiness down? Plus I put the stain down with the buffer and carpet applicator. No more of that hunched over all day long.
Poor job, you've got it all over the floor!
lol ! 😂😂😂
@@bethbartlett5692 😁
😒 🤔 That's the plan 😆
Thanks for this!
Should you add a seal before staining? Or is this unnecessary?
I’m staining my floors and am clueless
after staining how long do you wait to apply the finishing lacquer?
Depends on what stain you use and how well you blend it while staining. With minwax you can do it within 1-2 hours
Dat music, tho! WHO WAS IN THA STUDIO!!
Good work ! What kind of rug do u use ?
Thanks for the tip!!
I'm working on my floors (cypress) my day ended up in tears, I guess I'll
resand... its dark and light , I used a dark walnut...you made it look so easy!
thanks for the info. I used your video as a tutorial for the family before we started. unfortunately my floors didn't come out as well as yours.
My wood is light and want it dark, it’s got patches on it were there light so am putting a dye on to make it darker then the stain, if dont put the dye on and just put the stain on it done work cos you see light patches,
Hello UK have you heard of putting stain down with a side by side buffer with a carpet pad
Of course, unfortunately we haven’t had any stain that made that possible until very recently
Ok so if I may ask sir my 73 year old hardwood floors were sanded by 000 steel wool 10 years ago and I applied Oil base polyurethane it took almost a week to dry.
Will never use that again.
What I want to do is Screen with sandpaper 120 grit and the side by side or with 150 screens. Then clean it all up and put down prestain first then golden oak stain from Minwax. Then 24 hours later water base procoat Titan satin.
Do you think that is possible.
Ty. From New York.
Funky last track!
Many thanks for sharing this video. Can you please let me know what color of stain has been applied on the floor in this video? was dark oak or Medium Oak?
When is the best time to mop the floor after completing a stain job?
has the floor had a finish coat put on? or is it just the stain? if the floor has been properly finish I would give it 2 weeks just to be sure
If its just stain, you dont mop it, it needs to have a finish coat on it
Which cloth to use? Microfiber or cotton cloth for staining with hand?